Cork-extractor.



'BATENTED MAR. 6, 1906. J. COOMBER. f

CORK EXTRAGTOR.

PPLIOATION FILED JAN. 2s, 1903.

JAMES COOMBER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR, BY MENTS, TO HUGOREISINGER, VOF NEW YORK,

CORK-EXTRACTOB.

MESNE ASSIGN- N o. 814,641. Specification of Letters Patent.

1903. Serial No. 140,822.

Patented March 6, 1906. Application led January 28,

A vertical'guide or socket 14 is formed in the casing, and therein ascrew-carrier and a non-revoluble nut 16 are guided. A recess To allwhom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES CooMBER, a resident of the city of New York,in the county and State of New York, have invented cer- 17 is formed inthe frame, in which is mounttain new and useful Improvements in Corked apinion 18, which is secured to travel 6o Extractors, of which thefollowing is a full, wit an operating-lever 20 and which enclear, andexact description. gages the teeth of a rack-bar 19, integrally epresent invention relates to devices formed with the screw-carrier.Pinion 1S for drawing corks from bottles and the like, also engages theteeth of a stationary rack and more particularly to that class of cork-21, integrally formed with the frame. The 65 extractors in which anoperating-lever is emstud of pinion 18 is secured to lever 70 and ployedto impart a gyratory and longitudinal extends through and is free totravel vertishift to the corkscrew. cally in an elongated slot 23 formedin one of It is now common practice and has heretothe side walls offrame 10. T e pinion and fore been proposed to employ interlockingoperating-lever are normally positioned as 7o mechanism to insure theproper relative lonshown in Fig. 1. A handle 24 is secured to gitudinalmovement of the screw-carrier and the distal terminal of theoperating-lever. the nut or part for imparting rotation to the Carrier15 is longitudinally movable and is screw to cause -a unisonlongitudinal moveprovided with a flat bearing-surface 25, a slot ment ofcarrier and nut while the cork is beor recess 26, wherein is journaledthe shank 75 ing drawn and to insure independent longitu- 29 of acorkscrew 28, and a transverse slot or dinal movement of the carrierwhile the screw recess 27, adapted to receive head 30 of screw ispenetrating the cork and the cork is being 28. Head 30 fits within slot27 and causes stripped from the screw. the screw to move longitudinallytherewith.

One object of the present invention is to Shank 27 fits loosely in slot26, so a slight in- 8o provide an improved construction in whichdependent play of the carrier is permitted. the necessity of employinginterlocking Nut 16 is formed with a suitable way oi mechanism isavoided an inwhichtheproper groove, wherethrough the corkscrew passesrelative movement of the carrier and nut is an which causes thecorkscrew to rotate insured. when the nut and corkscrew are independ- 85The invention further designs to improve ently shifted Nut 16 hasintegrally formed the construction and operation of cork-extherewith astop 32, adapted to engage the tractors and to provide a device which iseffiame, as at 33 which forms an abutment for cient in operation andsimple in construclimiting the downward movement of the nut. tion, so itcan be produced at a low cost. he lower portion of the nut is preferablyof 9o -a clamp 12, whereby the contour corresponding to socket 14, andthe nut is provided with an integral upwardlyextending strip A34, havinga surface 35, adapted to be engaged by surface 25 of the carrier. Thenut is also formed with a lug 9 5 36, adapted to engage the top wall ofthe hereof.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a view in central vertical longitudinalsection of a corkextractor embodying the preferred form of theinvention. Fig. 2 is a view in horizontal section, taken on line 2 2 ofFig. 1. Fig.. 3 is on its under side by the carrier when the caraperspective of the screw-carrier. Fig. 4 is rier is in its normalposition and to secure the roo a perspective of the non-revoluble nut.Fig. nut against independent downward move- 5 is an inverted plan. Fig.6 is a detail view ment. of one of the guide-hooks of the bottle-holderThe friction-surfaces on the nut extension jaws. and carrier,respectively, provide friction A frame or casing 10 sustains the severalmeans, causing the carrier and nut to travel 105 'parts of the operatingmechanism and is usuin unison vertically, except when vleither of allyformed of sections secured and fitting these parts is restricted bypositive stop.

together. The frame may be provided with frame can be secured I to atable, counter, or shelf.

Recess 26 permits a slight fore-and-aft play of the carrier and avoidslateral strain against the corkscrew The longitudinal travel of iio thecorkscrew and nut is sufficient to withdraw a cork from a bottle andstrip the cork from screw during the continuous travel of the corkscrewin one direction.

The operation of the mechanism for withdrawing a cork and stripping thecork from the screw will be as follows: Assuming the mechanism to be innormal position (shown in Fig. 1) and a bottle to be held beneath theframe,V the operator will shift lever 20 forwardly and downwardly andimpart a cycloidal movement to pinion 18, which will shift the carrierin downward direction. The pinion during the initial part of its rotaryand downward travel will tend to force the carrier forwardly and causesurface 25 thereof to impinge against friction-surface 35 of the nut,and cause the carrier and nut to be held in firm frictional engagementwith each other to insure the unison longitudinal travel of thecorkscrew, carrier, and nut. The alinement of the screw will not bedisturbed, because it is loosely held in recess 26 of the carrier. Thescrew will be held against transverse movement in recess 26 and will bevertically alined by the nut. The unison downward movement of the nutand carrier will continue until stop 32 encounters abutment 33 and isthereby positively secured against further downward movement. During thefurther downward movement of the carrier friction-surface 25 will slipover or ride along friction-surface 35 of the nut. During the latterpart of the downward travel of the carrier the screw will gyrate andpenetrate the cork. The mechanism will then be in position indicated bydotted lines of Fig. 1. Reverse shift of the operating-lever will againcause the respective friction-surfaces of the carrier and nut to engageeach other and effect a unison upward shift of the corkscrew and nutduring the initial upward movement of the carrier until stop 36 engagesabutment 38. During such unison movement of said parts the cork will bedrawn from the bottle. Frictional engagement of the carrier and nutinsures such unison shift. After the nut is positively held againstupward movement the independent shift of the carrier will effect reversegyration of the corkscrew and strip the cork rom the corkscrew, so thecork will be free to gravitate from the frame or casing. While the corkis being stripped from the screw, the carrier will slip along the nut,and

after the carrier has been restored to normal position stop 36 will restagainst the upper edge of the carrier and prevent gravitation of thenut, thus securing the parts in proper relative position forcommencement of succeeding operation.

The present invention provides a cork-extractor which is verysimple inconstruction, which can be produced at a low cost, and in which theproper relative movements of the non-revoluble part for effectingrotation of the screw and the carrier are insured. Interlockingmechanism su'ch as is now commonly employed is dispensed with. Anobjection to the employment of interlocking mechanism is that if theoperating-lever was not shifted a full stroke proper operation of theinterlocking mechanism was not effected failure of the proper coactionof the mechanisms during the succeeding shift ofthe operatingleverresults. Such objection is entirely overcome in the present invention,since the carrier and nut will always be brought into frictionalengagement, even though the operating-lever is not moved to the full endof its stroke. An advantage in employing the particular construction ofcarrier and permitting a slight play of the corkscrew in the carrier isthat alinement of the vcorkscrew is not disturbed, and, furthermore,excessive friction between the corkscrew and carrier is avoided. Byforming open recesses 26 and 29 in the carrier the corkscrew-shank canbe inserted laterally into the carrier, and extension 34, fittingagainst the open sides of said recesses, retains the corkscrew in thecarrier.

1n Letters Patent of the United States No. 678,773, granted to me July16, 1901, there is shown and described a device for holding bottles, andthe present invention designs to improve the construction shown in suchpatent. The improved device for holding bottles comprises the jaws 40and 41, each of jvhich is secured to a horizontal projecting u eagch ofwhich is provided withaseries of teeth 44 intermeshing with each other.The central portion of each jaw is curved to fit around the neck of abottle and provided with an elastic strip 44. A handle 45 is integrallyformed with each of the members and the outward movement of each jaw isrestricted by a lug 47, integrally formed with frame 10. Each jaw isformed with a hook 45.

.The invention is not to be understood as restricted to the particularconstruction shown and described, but may be varied by the skilledmechanic without departing from the spirit of the invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

' 1. The combination with a frame of a longitudinally-movable carrier, acorkscrew journaled in said carrier, a nut for rotating said corkscrewhaving a limited longitudinal movement, a part rigidly secured to andtraveling longitudinally with said nut and having a projecting abutmentat its upper end in engagement with the carrier when the carrier is inits normal position, to determine the relative position of the carrierand nut during a part of the travel of the corkscrew in one direction.

2. The combination with a frame, of a lonlgitudinally-movable carrier, acorkscrew 42 of frame 1() by a fixed pivot 43, and

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j ournaled in said carrier, a nut for rotating ment with each other tocause unison longisaid corkscrew and through which said corktudinalmovement of the nut and carrier, said screw is extended and having alimited longicorkscrew being loosely mounted at its beartudinalmovement, friction-surfaces longituing in the carrier so that when saidsurfaces dinally movable with the carrier and nut reare forced intofrictional engagement the spectively and engaging each other to causecorkscrew will remain in accurate alinement. unison travel of the nutand carrier, said 4. In a cork-puller, the combination with corkscrewbeing loosely mounted at its beara frame, of a longitudinally-movablecarrier ing in the carrier so that when said surfaces guided by saidframe, a corkscrew journaled are forced into friction engagement, thecorkin said carrier and having a head at its upper screw remains inaccurate alinemehtI and an end, said carrier having an open recessoperating-lever.

3. The combination with aframe, of alonally into the journal of thecarrier, a part gitudinally-movable carrier, a corkscrew movable withsaid nut, extended adjacent journaled in said carrier, a nut forrotating said recess to retain the corkscrew in the said corkscrew andthrough which said corkcarrier and an operating-lever for impartingscrew is extended and having a limited longimovement to the carrier.tudinal movement, a part secured to travel JAMES COOMBER. with the nuthaving an extended friction-sur In presence offace, a friction-surfacemovement with the HEPPOLYTO A. GENE, carrier, said surfaces being heldin engage- WILLIAM WEIL.

through which the head can be inserted later-

